3 ms·

The trick is to start the company yourself. :) We're 3 years in and full .NET stack. Is your project an internal app or public? I'm cautiously optimistic abou

The trick is to start the company yourself. :) We're 3 years in and full .NET stack. Is your project an internal app or public? I'm cautiously optimistic about Blazor Server but I'm not sure I like the sticky SignalR requirement. The expectation seems to be that the backend server will keep around a lot of state (cough viewstate?) in memory associated to that session. It's a very convenient dev experience for sure, but it seems difficult to scale beyond internal business apps.

ofrzeta 4y ago
This is why they recommend using the Azure SignalR Service, I guess :)
- vyrotek 4y ago
  Indeed. That's that the only way I'd consider it. Luckily, they are generous with the free messages. Last I looked it was about $161 per day to scale to 100k concurrent users. But that's just SignalR. We'll also need much beefier AppServices with lots more memory than what we use now. Not quite sure how it works beyond that when you need multiple service instances connected with a backplane. The new premium tier I just saw sounds convenient though. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/signalr-service https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/signalr-se... https://youtu.be/OsdBpMumf_c?t=635 https://youtu.be/OsdBpMumf_c?t=635
avgDev 4y ago
It is an internal app, otherwise I would go for web-assembly with an API.
whalesalad 4y ago
dev on .net is something I can understand ... but deploying and running windows servers in prod sounds like a hellish nightmare
- lockhouse 4y ago
  The full .NET stack runs on Linux now. It’s even in RHEL’s repos. Heck you can even run MS SQL Server on Linux now if that’s your thing.
  - LeFantome 4y ago
    It is in Ubuntu and the AUR ( Arch ) as well. In pragmatic terms, .NET is as native as anything else in Linux at this point. You can even build it from source: https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet In fact, the VMR ( linked above ) ONLY works on Linux at the moment with Windows and Mac support planned. So, .NET is Linux-first in some ways. MAUI is not Linux first of course. The rest of it is becoming more and more Linux and container focussed though it seems.
- vyrotek 4y ago
  You can run it all on linux and containers or whatever you want these days.
- ducharmdev 4y ago
  Where I work, we all use MacBooks and deploy our services on Linux boxes. .NET has been cross-platform for years now.

ofrzeta 4y ago

This is why they recommend using the Azure SignalR Service, I guess :)

vyrotek 4y ago
Indeed. That's that the only way I'd consider it. Luckily, they are generous with the free messages. Last I looked it was about $161 per day to scale to 100k concurrent users. But that's just SignalR. We'll also need much beefier AppServices with lots more memory than what we use now. Not quite sure how it works beyond that when you need multiple service instances connected with a backplane. The new premium tier I just saw sounds convenient though. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/signalr-service https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/signalr-se... https://youtu.be/OsdBpMumf_c?t=635 https://youtu.be/OsdBpMumf_c?t=635

avgDev 4y ago

It is an internal app, otherwise I would go for web-assembly with an API.

whalesalad 4y ago

dev on .net is something I can understand ... but deploying and running windows servers in prod sounds like a hellish nightmare

lockhouse 4y ago
The full .NET stack runs on Linux now. It’s even in RHEL’s repos. Heck you can even run MS SQL Server on Linux now if that’s your thing.
- LeFantome 4y ago
  It is in Ubuntu and the AUR ( Arch ) as well. In pragmatic terms, .NET is as native as anything else in Linux at this point. You can even build it from source: https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet In fact, the VMR ( linked above ) ONLY works on Linux at the moment with Windows and Mac support planned. So, .NET is Linux-first in some ways. MAUI is not Linux first of course. The rest of it is becoming more and more Linux and container focussed though it seems.
vyrotek 4y ago
You can run it all on linux and containers or whatever you want these days.
ducharmdev 4y ago
Where I work, we all use MacBooks and deploy our services on Linux boxes. .NET has been cross-platform for years now.